Pay Trends for Sales Jobs

Updated October 12, 2016

Where can you find sales professionals? You'll find them in nearly every industry because they close deals and bring in money. While retail workers are covered in the retail jobs category, this category includes not only salespeople but models, product demonstrators, and sales engineers.

The PayScale Index tracks quarterly changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees in the United States. In addition to a national index, it includes separate indices for specific industries, metropolitan areas, job categories, and company sizes. The PayScale Index uses 2006 average total cash compensation as a baseline.